Shoe-button fastener



(i0 Model.)

A. G. WILKINS.

ShoeButton Fastener.

.No-. 235,974. Patented Dec. 28,1880.

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N. PEIERS, PHOTO-PTHOGRAPHER. WASHINGTON. D.Q

UNITED STATES PAT NT OFFICE.

ALEXANDER Gr. WILKINS, OF GOOPERSTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA.

SHOE-BUTTON. FASTENER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 235,974, dated December 28, 1880.

Application filed August 19, 1880.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, ALEXANDER G. WIL- KINS, of Gooperstown, Venan go county, Pennsylvania, have invented a new and Improved Shoe-Button Fastening; and I hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 illustrates the implement I use to insert the fastening. Fig. 2 is a plan of the fastening device, the button being shown in dotted lines. Fig. 3 is a view of the inside of ashoe to which the fastenings have been applied, a portion of the lining being cut away to show the fastening between the leather of the shoe and the lining. Fig. 4 is a view of the outside of the shoe, showing the fastening applied, the buttons being in dotted lines.

The object of my invention is to provide a cheap and simple removable button-fastenin g for shoes; and my invention consists in a spirally-coiled wire having on the end forming the center of the coil a curved loop bent at right angles to the plane in which the wire is coiled, and which engages the eye of the button, the said fastening being applied to the shoe, as hereinafter fully described.

In order that those skilled in the art may make and use my invention, I will proceed to describe the manner in which I have carried it out.

In the said drawings, Ais a coiled wire, the coils lying in the same plane, its inner end terminating in a curved loop, B, bent at right angles to the plane of the coil; and O is the button, (shown in dotted lines,) the eye a of which engages with loop 13.

This fastening I apply as follows, preferably by means of the implement shown in Fig. 1,

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provided with a curved awl at one end, H, and at the other end with a griping device, I, which slips over the eye of the button and screws the fastening to its place: A hole, I), is punctured entirely through leather and lining, and a short distance therefrom, by means of the curved awl, a hole, d, is punctured in the lining alone. The free end of the wire coil is inserted in hole I), passed back through hole (I, and then screwed in until the eye of the button, interlocked in loop B, is brought down against the leather of the shoe. The button will then be found to be secure against any strain tending to pull it directly from the leather.

It will be observed that when the fastening is screwed down the end of the loop B presses or crimps the leather down into the space in the center of the coiled Wire,'thereby aiding in a more secure hold between the point of the loop and the portion of the wire opposite.

This fastener is of cheap construction, of easy application, easily removable, and absolutely secure.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

An improved shoe-button fastener, consisting of the flat spiral coiled wire A, provided at its inner end with the loop B, to engage the button-eye, and its outer end free and adapted to be inserted through the leather and lining, and then back through the lining only, and screwed in until the main portion of the coil lies between the leather and the lining, substantially as set forth.

ALEXANDER G. WILKINS. 

